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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I was horrified to find EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY BOOKS had been plundered without my consent by the Meta AI book thieves. It's a violation & is wrong in every way. Please support us by signing this @societyofauthors.bsky.social petition and get them to #DoTheWriteThing! www.change.org/p/protect-au...

#DoTheWriteThing poster for the Society Of Authors campaign, showing authors protesting against the theft of their work by Meta AI

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

chng.it/5NhyDZZnCb Please sign and protest Meta's outrageous but somehow not surprising use of illegally pirated works to train its AI. Copyright sounds sort of quaint but essentially it's about the right to fair pay. And this is about the preservation of individual human creativity.

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We Can Make an Impact.

Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The Monty lit fest programme is here!

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 06/03/2025

Words To Live By Number 197

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f... - a so-far-still-sticking-to-it new year's resolution this year was to keep a better record of what I read and I've been using @thestorygraph.com and enjoying it. So I'm delighted to learn that it is not and hopefully never will be anything to do with amazon...

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‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

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Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Hey hey, the lovely @katemallinder.bsky.social has just moved to Bluesky! Writer of brilliant, uplifting young-teen novels. Give her a follow #kidlituk

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Candy Gourlay @candygourlay.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy book birthday to me and illustrator Jamie Bauza! Born today: LITTLE RHINO LOST, U.S. edition! Published by Crocodile Books @interlinkbooks.bsky.social The UK edition will be out in March, published by @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Just walked in bright cold sunshine from Hammersmith to Kew along the @thamespathnt.bsky.social - there was a big rowing comp taking place and we walked to the sound of shouts over the water and oars splashing. The river must always have been this lively once... #thames #amwalking

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Jurassic World is on tv and all I can think is 'for the love of god Clare get a pair of trainers.' #wrongshoes #newyearsday #moviebinge

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ethical Consumer magazine has taken a deep dive into the corporate behaviour of #Amazon & summarised its top reasons to boycott them. www.ethicalconsumer.org/retailers/te... 🧵

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Walked through St Pancras station and I wanted to take a train to anywhere that wasnt my life. My life is truly fine. Just one of those feelings one of those days. #writerslife

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The wonderful author - and person I like very much - @celiarees.bsky.social has joined BlueSky. Give her a follow.

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Megan Carpentier @megancarpentier.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.) www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Sunrise at A Place To Write in North Wales last week - the view from my room early one morning. There were some moments of writerly illumination too...

A tree at sunrise, purple and pink sky behind the branches.

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Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The quickest way to unhappiness is to compare your writing/poetic journey and "success" with others. (Also, "success" in quotes because what exactly does that mean--it's so subjective.)

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A big difficulty in writing book 2 is that all the reworkings of book 1 taught me to see how many possible versions are inherent in every scene & chapter. As soon as anything is written I see how it could be different & better & it's hard to leave it be for now and move on #writing #writingbook2

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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sunlit North Wales: the view from today's walk between writing sessions at @aplacetowrite2 in Corwen. My feelings about this book are as up & down as the landscape! Ah well. Onwards. #writing #walking #ya #clifi

A view over a valley of green fields, a river, woods. A small town in shadow at the bottom of the hill, gentle mountains in the distance. Peaceful sunlit countryside under a blue sky with a few scattered clouds.

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Watching the rain come in from the path up Caer Drewyn this afternoon. Now back to the desk and hoping for words to pour... #wales

A view over a valley in wales. Green fields and hedges in the foreground, distant mountains. Grey clouds with the sun breaking through. A rain cloud suffused with sunlight sweeping across the valley.

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So happy to be back at A Place To Write in North Wales for some focussed time with the WIP before the xmas jollity takes over. #writing #yafiction

A writing desk in front of a window with a view of trees and sky outside

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I highly recommend the documentary #BuyNow on #Netflix, exposing the horrific levels of waste in consumer industries. 15 million items of discarded clothing (“recycled” through companies like H&M) are shipped to Ghana each week. It literally ends up in mountains on the beaches 😭😭😭

Screenshot of the program page on Netflix. The description reads: “Ex-insiders from the world’s biggest brands share the manipulative tricks they use to keep customers consuming – at a devastating cost to our lives.

Screenshot from the documentary trailer, showing a beach covered in discarded clothing

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just now I have as many followers as there were dalmatians and while I hope to connect with more of the lovely people on here this is momentarily very pleasing. #followers #blueskyfriends.

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a group of dalmatian puppies are running out of a window .

Alt: a group of dalmatian puppies are running out of a window .

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Monday morning. Putting off the blank page with another cuppa, watching the bird feeder and exploring bluesky. #YAfiction #procrastination

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Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Brilliantly helpful, thanks so much. Like walking into a room full of lovely like-minded people and old friends...

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